Publications tagged with "derrida":
The Suicide Bomber; and her gift of death
2010Paperback, 290 pagesISBN 098253096XThis book is an attempt to defend the undefendable: the suicide bomber as a figure of thinking, a figure that foregrounds the singularity of each event; and it is this un-understandability-which is part of understanding itself-that the suicide bomber never lets us forget. For, the suicide bomber is the poet par excellence, reminding us of the p...Publication Program: Think Media: EGS Media Philosophy SeriesTrans/actions: art, film and death
2009Paperback, 350 pagesISBN 0974853437Trans/actions: Art, Film and Death explore the representation of art, artists and art history in film through two primary questions. The first: why are there so many representations of stereotypical mad artists, particularly psychopathic killers and suicidal artists in film when there are so few clearly documented cases of such artists within th...Publication Program: Think Media: EGS Media Philosophy SeriesThe Ethics of Uncertainty: Aporetic Openings
2009Paperback, 120 pagesISBN 0974853429The Ethics of Uncertainty asks what it means to live, act, decide, and respond responsibly, in the aporia of freedom itself - a freedom which on one hand opens us to the open space of possible possibilities, and on the other, leaves us no stable ground or measure for pre/determined decision making. The aporia of freedom is conditioned by the in...Publication Program: Think Media: EGS Media Philosophy SeriesHospitality in the age of media representation
2009Paperback, 200 pagesISBN 0974853461The world overflows with stimuli. Many of these are advertising messages that will never know whether we hear them. They are not alive but continue speaking. We adjust our filters and stop listening to them in turn. In an economy of excess, the advertising industry meets this problem with more advertising. The vendors' cries grow louder and it b...Publication Program: Think Media: EGS Media Philosophy SeriesLiterature as Pure Mediality: Kafka and the Scene of Writing
2009Paperback, 144 pagesISBN 0974853445The utilization of an instrumental model that sees language as a means of bringing us towards fixed meaning is one of the greatest limitations in the human attempt to establish an authentic understanding of the dynamics of communication. An acceptance of language from this perspective constricts our ability to have an adequate confrontation, or ...Publication Program: Think Media: EGS Media Philosophy SeriesTeletheory
2004Paperback, 328 pagesISBN 0974853402The second and revised edition of a groundbreaking philosophical treatise from a leading authority on the theory and practice of electronic culture in the media age. Continuing the work of post(e)-pedagogy of Applied Grammatology, Ulmer's Teletheory is the second book of his trilogy on the modes of inquiry which concludes with Heuretics. Telethe...Publication Program: Interventions
